The Company
Theatre Beliâshe is a french-scandinavian company installed in the mountainous region of the Cantal, France, since 1992.
The company was created in Norway 1982 by Tim Dalton (UK) and a group of stage artists, with the common starting point being that the language of the actor’s body and gesture as well as music, visual imagery and sound can all find their strength of expression alongside the text, not separate and isolated on each their stage , but evolving into a common language of performance technique.
The work of the company is focused on the actor's plasticity and gesture. Concentrating on the capacity to construct stagework in play and invention, the company is always searching to perfect a simultaneous training for the body and the imagination. This same approach is to be found in the work with the experimental playing space and the devising of performances through improvisation and related methods of creation, where the plastic arts and music play an important part in the productions.
This particular process of work has led to a considerable variety of artistic expressions, from intimate one-man shows to gigantic outdoor happenings.
The company is deeply involved in the education and training of professional actors, with a natural development of this being the artistic education of young people and children. Professional workshops are given on a regular basis in France and abroad.
Why the name "Beliâshe" ?
A first collaboration took place in Lapland, with the Sami Theatre “Beaivvas”, where the company was given their name from a sacred shaministic mountain, “Bealjâsat ”, (“The small ears”) that lies outside the town of Kautekeino .
Theatre Beljâshe then installed itself in the south of Norway where they had their working base for ten years, until they finally moved to France in 1992.